Are American voters really stupid?

Now that the outrage has slightly died down about her emails the next thing is her affiliation with the devil

At least it's better than the Russian half baked presidential election system.

Yes, a large proportion of them are deeply stupid people.

I thought this would be the election where a third party candidate could enter the ring as a legitimate contender.

There is so much division and strife in the two establishment parties, it's obvious that sizeable sections of each dislike their nominated candidate.

Didn't happen though.

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I thought this would be the election where a third party candidate could enter the ring as a legitimate contender

That did happen.

The GOP hates Trump & he hates the GOP.

He's a 3rd candidate who just happened to hijack the GOPs nomination race.... And after Tuesday there won't be hide nor hair of him around anything to do with the Republicans ever again.

midnight city wrote: »

We had Bertie Ahern for 10 years

Ah here, there's absolutely no comparison.

Dodgy politicians are one thing - they're as old as time itself.

Knowingly electing a guy who's an outright predator, both in business terms and as far as we can tell, in sexual assault terms as well, a guy who's never held any elected office, who preaches absolute ****ing madness at his rallies and very obviously doesn't give a **** about anyone - there's not even a veneer of it - is quite another matter.

The only thing his supporters can point to as a positive for him are his business achievements, but his results are scarcely better than chance and include multiple bankruptcies
Also, they seem to like how much of an asshole he is, which is apparently a good thing now.

Say what you want about our politicians, but they tend to fall within a fairly small range and tend towards blandness and ineffectiveness rather than anything else.
You'd never have a loola like Trump or an arsehole of the scale of Clinton eleceted here. Our politics is too safe and too neutral.